Venezuela complains over Palestine at the UNSC

The South American country urged the international community and the Israeli regime to work for peace and put an end to the illegal use of force.

The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Rafael Ramirez, asked last Thursday at the Security Council for the "immediate ceasefire of the colonization process the Palestinian people is a victim of" in the hands of the Israeli regime.

Rafael Ramirez demanded for the end of the policy of Palestinian home demolitions and the building of settlements in occupied territories, which are in "violation of all international provisions".

Rafael Ramirez demanded for the end of the policy of Palestinian home demolitions and the building of settlements in occupied territories, which are in "violation of all international provisions". He also questioned the capacity of the UNSC to face the problem, as it has deliberated on it for over half a century without reaching any concrete results.

Ramirez also urged to the UN to recognize Palestine as a member with full rights, a recognition that would be a "positive signal" for the advancement of peace, and denounced the Israeli regime over its use of force against a population which has been "ignored and unattended to their rights", something which contributes to the destabilization of the region and the surge of terrorism.

In 2013, the Palestinian National Authority and Israel had resumed peace talks after three years, but these were unilaterally suspended in April of the next year by the Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahi, who months later launched a new invasion of Gaza, with a large number of human and material losses.

It is estimated that at least half a million Israelis live in at least 120 settlements inareas illegally occupied from Palestine since 1967, after the so-called war of the six days, in spite of the United Nations rejecting their construction in such territories repeatedly, as it violates the Geneva Agreement of 1949.

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